oscars the movie making history on hollywood s biggest night. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone president biden was up early in front of the cameras before the markets opened this morning in a move to calm jitters following a pair of bank collapses. mr. biden declaring the banking system is safe and telling customers your deposits will be there when you need them new york s signature bank following silicon valley bank down the road to collapse over the weekend. those banks are tonight in the hands of regulators. in addition to telling folks their money is safe, the president today called on congress and banking regulators to strengthen banking rules to prevent such failures in the future the government reassurance appeared to go a long way toward easing nerves on wall street however, concerns remain over whether it s all over. nbc s jake ward has much more. reporter: with two u.s. banks being forced into closure in recent days
not testify about hush money payments to an adult film star. it comes as his former fixer, michael cohen, does appear before the grand jury. our nbc news exclusive. uk prime minister rishi sunak. his first u.s. broadcast interview since taking office as he joins president biden and australia s leader to announce a nuclear submarine deal. his tough words for china, calling it a systemic challenge to the world order. what he thinks about the origins of covid and what s his relationship like with king charles? and winning everything at the oscars. the movie making history on hollywood s biggest night. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. president biden was up early in front of the cameras before the markets opened this morning in a move to calm jitters following a pair of bank collapses. mr. biden declaring the banking system is safe and telling customers your deposits will be there when you need them. new york s signature bank
In the main city stepanakert, where food and medicine are running low, and power cuts are frequent. Live now to rayhan demytrie, who is our correspondent In The South Caucasus and central asia. A very good evening to you and george r. I think you can hear us, what is the very latest happening at the moment where you are . World, in Nagorno Karabakh, the focus is now on humanitarian crisis because we have people escaping from the azerbaijan so people are concentrated now in the basements, there is no electricity, some pictures have emerged on socialfrom journalists posting regularly about the situation in Nagorno Karabakh and it shows really overcrowded basements with no electricity and people sitting there in fear not really knowing what comes next. I really knowing what comes next. I want to ask while we have you, the Foreign Minister has been speaking at the United Nationsjust Foreign Minister has been speaking at the United Nations just in the last few moments. Saying azerbaijan wil
therapy at an inpatient rehab facility before returning home. his medical team discovered he had a minor rib fracture. in san diego today president biden was joined by the leaders of australia and the united kingdom to announce a new phase of a defense agreement meant to counter china s expanding aims in the asia pacific region including providing australia with conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines. ahead of that meeting i sat down with uk prime minister rishi sunak for his first u.s. tv interview to talk about his view of china as his own country bounces back from political turmoil. britain is back. and part of the job that i ve got as prime minister is to give people that confidence in our country. reporter: rishi sunak emerged last fall from a revolving door of british prime ministers. now returning to a state he called home for several years, we fittingly met aboard a retired warship, now the uss midway museum, just as prime